1914 - The world's first scheduled commercial airline flight occurred in Florida on January 1st, 1914. Young aviator Tony Jannus made...

1970 - May 20, 1970 Florida lawmakers passed and sent to the Governor a bill adopting the moonstone as the official state gem....

1944 - Miami beach pharmacist Benjamin Green invented the first suntan cream in 1944. He accomplished this development by cooking cocoa...

1958 - The first US satellite, Explorer I, was launched from the US Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral.

Jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, in the late 19th...

1849 - Fort Meade is the oldest settlement in Polk County. It dates back to 1849 when a settlement grew around the United States Cavalry...

1880 - The water hyacinth, a beautiful flowered aquatic plant, was introduced to Florida accidentally in the 1880s and grows so...

1845- Fort Zachary Taylor in Key West was built between 1845 and 1866. Controlled by the Union during the Civil War, the fort was the...

1565- St. Augustine is a city in Northeast Florida and the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement and port in the...

1539- Safety Harbor is the home of the historic Espiritu Santo Springs. Given this name in 1539 by the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto....

Cape Canaveral is America's launch pad for space flights.Officially Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973, it lies east of Merritt Island,...

The name Punta Gorda, which means, "fat point" when translated from Spanish. The moniker was given to the city because a broad part of...

Dr. John Gorrie of Apalachicola was an American physician, scientist, inventor of mechanical cooling, and humanitarian .Born on the...

Tampa's Bayshore Boulevard is touted as the world's longest continuous sidewalk. It is a popular waterfront gathering place for joggers...

The Saint John's River is rather unique . It is one of only a few river that flows in a northerly direction. The St. John's River the...

In 1929 a "Bat Tower" was built in Florida Keys to control mosquitoes was filled with bats, which promptly flew away, never to return.It...